FILM 2092: AVENGERS: ENDGAME (2019)
FILM 2092: AVENGERS: ENDGAME (2019)
TRIVIA: Robert Downey Jr. was the only actor who read the entire script.
Shot back-to-back with Avengers: Infinity War (2018) over a period of 200 days.
The final cameo by Stan Lee in a Marvel film.
Robert Downey Jr. once told Anthony Russo and Joe Russo about how one of his children said "I love you 3000" to him. The directors liked the phrase so much that they decided to include it in the film.
The idea of showing the autographs for the original Avengers Assemble (2012) actors in the end credits came from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), which was also a finale for its cast.
Robert Downey Jr. hid his own personal snacks all over set. The scenes where he's eating snacks and offers them to his costars were all improvised.
The Stan Lee cameo is based on his own actual look in the 1970s. They used Lola Visual Effects to de-age Lee back to his 70s self.
Much of the dialogue in the debate scene about time travel came from conversations with real quantum scientists.
Back to the Future is mocked very often in this movie. Alan Silvestri, who scored every Avengers movie (Except Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015))including Avengers: Endgame, also scored the Back to the Future trilogy.
As of July 21 2019, "Avengers: Endgame" has become the top grossing movie of all time (inflation not adjusted), beating out Avatar (2009) (which has made $2,789,700,000) after its re-release, with $2,790,216,193.
Visual Effects Producer Jen Underdahl detailed how she approached Brolin's Thanos in both Infinity War as well as this film, reflecting on how Josh Brolin's performance was as much a character discovery for the team as it was a technical journey one that led the team to change how Thanos was written due to Brolin's performance choices. "Not only was it a technical discovery for us, it was also a character discovery for Josh [Brolin], Joe and Anthony [Russo]," she explained. "We found... we kind of had imagined Thanos as this big, mean, you know -- over the top character, but how Josh played him was beautiful. His performance was menacing but subtle. Terrifying, but in little flinches, so we realized at that moment that we really needed to have a company that captured all that and pulled his performance through the prosthetics so that when you are like this on Thanos [shows a shot of the Avengers villain], you felt the terror in your bones with this character, because, you had to."
DIRECTOR CAMEOS: Joe Russo: The co-director of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and this film appears as Grieving Man in the support group scene. Two other directors of MCU films are also in the cast of this film, reprising named roles from MCU films they directed: Taika Waititi(director of Thor: Ragnarok (2017)) as Korg and Jon Favreau (director of Iron Man (2008) and Iron Man 2 (2010)) as Happy Hogan.
Joe Russo: as the support group member who talks about going on a date for the first time after losing his male partner, marking the first time an openly gay character has been featured in the MCU. He earlier made cameos in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Captain America: Civil War (2016), and in a deleted screen from Avengers: Infinity War (2018).
